# Expense Categories

An Expense Category represents the type of expense that is being reported.
Expense categories have no attributes and consist of just their name
as a string. They can be changed by Account Administrators.

 - [GET /expense_categories](https://developer.kantata.com/kantata/specification/expense-categories/get%20expense%20categories.md): This endpoint returns structured Expense Category objects. As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the `results` array and will be indexed by ID i
 - [POST /expense_categories](https://developer.kantata.com/kantata/specification/expense-categories/create%20expense%20category.md): This endpoint returns structured Expense Category objects. As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the `results` array and will be indexed by ID i
 - [PUT /expense_categories/{id}](https://developer.kantata.com/kantata/specification/expense-categories/update%20expense%20category.md): This endpoint returns structured Expense Category objects. As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the `results` array and will be indexed by ID i
 - [DELETE /expense_categories/{id}](https://developer.kantata.com/kantata/specification/expense-categories/delete%20expense%20category.md): Deleting an expense category updates the `deleted_at` attribute to the current time. Deleted expense categories are not included by default in the index action and can be retrieved by setting `only_ac